Shen Chenai's Different Life in Ancient Times

Shen Chenai stayed in the house and obediently waited for Luo Ding to come back. To ensure safety, he also left Da Ya and Er Ya in the stone house, and closed the wooden door tightly.

As the sun gradually turned to the west, the light in the stone house gradually dimmed. Fortunately, there were two fires in the house, and the surrounding area was still bright.

The two puppies, who had been running wildly outside for a day, were a little tired at this time, and they both lay down under the stone bed, and fell asleep with their eyes closed.

Shen Chenai leaned on the window sill, looking at the sun outside, and carefully calculated the time when Luo Ding would leave and return.

When the sun was setting, the big girls, who were lying on the ground and resting obediently, suddenly pricked up their ears, and then raised their heads to look at the gate.

Shen Chenai immediately realized that something was approaching the stone house, and after a while, the two dogs stood up, wagging their tails, and waited at the gate of the stone house.

This is Luo Ding's return. After seeing the reactions of the dogs, Shen Chenai instantly deciphered the meaning they wanted to express from their body language.

Without bothering to praise the dogs for their cleverness, Shen Chenai turned over and put on her shoes, and trotted all the way to the door to open it.

As soon as the gate was opened, the two puppies rushed out one after the other, circling around Luo Ding who had just returned.Luo Ding held the prey with one hand, and patted their heads with the other hand, which was regarded as a reward for their clever performance.

Luo Ding who came back was holding the prey he had hunted this time, two wild rabbits whose bodies had begun to stiffen.

These two wild rabbits should have fallen into the trap set by Luo Ding last night, so when Luo Ding saw them, they had been dead for a long time, but fortunately, at the current temperature, the rabbits were frozen overnight Chances are they haven't thawed by now, so there's no need to worry about them spoiling.

Luo Ding plans to use these two rabbits to feed Shen Chenai as an extra meal tonight, so he has to clean up these two rabbits while there is still a glimmer of light in the sky, or else he can't see them when the sky is dark It's not easy to peel off the rabbit skin in the clear part.

When Luo Ding went out, he had already boiled water on the stove, and now that the prey had been brought back, he could use the boiled water to pluck and skin the rabbit.

Fearing that Shen Chenai would not be able to see this kind of scene, when Luo Ding skinned the rabbit, he deliberately chose it in the woods, and directly dug a hole in the woods to bury the removed internal organs.After returning to the house, Luo Ding found a basin, melted a basin of snow water, and soaked the two packed rabbits in it.

This is to remove the residual blood in the rabbit's body, so that the rabbit meat will not taste so fishy.

For dinner this day, Shen Chenai ate a wild vegetable stewed rabbit meat that he hadn't seen for a long time. To be honest, wild rabbits run around all year round. Their bodies have more muscle and less fat. Things are stewed together.

However, the harsh ingredients could not support the chef's skill. Under Luo Ding's ingenious hands, a dish of squatting rabbit meat, which was nothing but ordinary, was unexpectedly made by him in such a simple environment and materials. the taste of.

The stewed food from the two hares was eaten by two people and two dogs. Although the hares are not too fat in winter, they eat more than four catties of meat and a large pot of wild vegetables. All of them stretched out their bellies.

Shen Chenai, who had eaten too much, lay on his back on the stone bed, straightened up and asked Luo Ding to rub his belly. Luo Ding sat on the side of the bed, obediently rubbing his belly lightly, and kept licking his belly from the window. Watching the night outside.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, Luo Ding stopped what he was doing, pushed Shen Chenai who was lying on the stone bed and said, "Brother Chen is up, I will take you out for a walk."

Shen Chenai turned over when she heard the words, and quickly put on her own clothes. Isn't it just for the present that Luo Ding has been mysterious for the past few days, and followed him out to see what he was up to.

The mountain road at night is more difficult to walk than during the day, even if Luo Ding lights the torch in front to illuminate the road for Shen Chenmi, he still has to be more careful when walking, so as not to step into the snow pit.

Only Luo Ding and Shen Chenai came out this time, and they did not bring the two little guys, Da Ya and Er Ya.Luo Ding locked them in the stone house before going out, the dissatisfied grunts of the two puppies, even though they were far away, Shen Chenai could still hear them.

Luo Ding seemed to be very familiar with the terrain here. He led Shen Chenmi to avoid some difficult ditches and ridges, and walked towards the narrow crevice formed between the two upper peaks.

When approaching the crevice, Shen Chenai discovered through the moonlight that there seemed to be a light mist coming out of the crevice, lingering at the mouth of the valley for a long time, covering the entire mountain crevice like thin sand.

Luo Ding led Shen Chenai all the way down, and when he came to the thin crack, he raised the torch in his hand, turned his head and said to Shen Chenai: "We have to go through this canyon to get in, the inside of this canyon There are several branched branches, you must follow me closely when you go in later."

After speaking, he took the lead and walked in first, Shen Chenai hurriedly followed after seeing this.

There is no light in the narrow canyon, the torch that Luo Ding holds above his head is the only light here, Shen Chenxi follows behind and stares at the light, for fear of accidentally falling behind, in case in such a situation Getting lost where you can't see your fingers is a bad thing.

Fortunately, this canyon is not long, but only about a thousand meters away. When Shen Chenai followed Luo Ding out of the canyon, he was stunned by what he saw.

Not far from the exit of the canyon is a clear pond. The surface of the pond is covered with white mist. The surroundings of the small pond are covered with white snow, and the dead branches of surrounding shrubs and branches of weeping willows are covered with crystal rime. , Dressing them up as if carved out of ice and snow.

Looking at this fairyland-like scenery, Shen Chenai not only subconsciously poked his back, but he didn't remember that he didn't come out with a drawing board this time until his hands were all empty.

It's a pity that Shen Chenai beat his feet and chest, annoyed why he didn't bring the painting tools here. It's a pity for him that such a beautiful world can't be portrayed.

Just when Shen Chenai was scratching his heart and cheeks because of the itching, Luo Ding stuck the torch in his hand on the ground, and then pulled Shen Chenai to the edge of the pool.

Approaching the water pool, Shen Chenai felt a hot and humid water vapor blowing towards his face. He thought he already knew where the mist lingering around came from. If he guessed correctly, the pool of water should be A glance at the hot springs.

Sure enough, when Shen Chenai was thinking secretly, Luo Ding said to him as he walked: "I found this place by accident when I was chasing prey. There is a hot spring in the small pool in front. The water is warm and clear. It lasts a year. The four seasons have the same temperature. You see, it’s beautiful here, and I think so too. At first, I thought that Zaimei was just like this, but a discovery later made me know what it means to be a fairyland on earth.”

While they were talking, both of them came to the edge of the pool. The wind brought by them while walking blew away the mist that condensed on the surface of the water. Shen Chenai followed Luo Ding's words and looked into the pool. The scenery in front of him made him unforgettable all his life.

In the clear spring water, there are countless sparkling little things, they are like the stars in the sky, swimming around in the pool water, in the blink of an eye, Shen Chenzhen is like seeing the broken Xinghe fell into this pool of spring water.

Such beautiful scenery made Shen Chenai almost obsessed with it, and walked towards the edge of the pool in a daze, if Luo Ding hadn't stretched out his hand to hold him, he would almost have stepped into the pool.

Luo Ding's tugging finally brought Shen Chenai back to his senses, so he carefully went to the edge of the pool and squatted down, carefully observing the little things that were playing and swimming in the hot spring.

Looking closely at Shen Chenai, I realized that those swimming in the water are a kind of weird aquatic creatures. They are not big, and they look a bit like shrimp. Each one is only the size of a pea. It is transparent, and the head and tail can be clearly distinguished.

They all have a pair of small clam-like carapaces on their backs, but the carapaces look very soft and not hard at all. There are also a pair of gastropods on the abdomen that are constantly paddling water, allowing them to move freely. swimming around in the water.

The most peculiar thing is that there is a luminous point on the tail of this kind of small thing that is not clear whether it is a mollusk or a crustacean. As they swim, the luminous point will also turn on and off, just like the twinkling of a star. In a blink of an eye.

Shen Chenai has been conquered by this strange creature in front of him, he stretched out his hand, trying to pick up that magical little thing and take a closer look.

It's a pity that those things are very ghostly, they seem to be able to sense the surroundings by the movement of the water, whenever Shen Chenhai's hand approaches them, these little things that were originally leisurely cruising in the pool will incite their backs The pair of soft shells escaped far away with their thrust.

After several attempts, the little thing escaped, Shen Chenai looked at the water surface in frustration.Luo Ding saw his brother Chen's dejected look, so he squatted beside him, put his hands into the water, put his hands together in a bucket shape, and then waited there motionless.

Not long after, the little things that felt very peaceful here swam over again waving their bellies, and some of them slowly swam into Luo Ding's palm.

What Luo Ding was waiting for was now, and he quickly cupped his hands in the water, and there was a shiny little thing swimming around in the center of his hands.

Shen Chenai took the little thing from Luo Ding's hand, held it fondly, and asked Luo Ding while looking at it: "What is this thing?"

Hearing this, Luo Ding shook his head and replied: "I don't know, I only know that they only live in this pool, and they only appear in the pool every year during the twelfth lunar month, and they all appear at night. As soon as the sun is out, they will slowly disappear, and I don’t know where to hide.”

"Really? It sounds amazing!" Shen Chenai looked at the little thing in her hand with surprise.

But at this time, the water in his hand was about to run out slowly, and the place where the little thing moved in his hand was getting smaller and smaller.

In order not to hurt the little thing in her hand, even though she was a little reluctant, Shen Chenai put it back into the pool.

Seeing the pity on Shen Chenai's face, Luo Ding said beside him: "If you really want to get closer, you can go down into the water and play with them."

Shen Chenai was very surprised when she heard the words and said, "Can people go down in this pool?"

Hearing this, Luo Ding squinted his eyes and replied: "This is a hot soup pool, of course it is possible. I used to like to take a dip here after a busy day. The spring water here is very comfortable. will be gone."

Hearing this, Shen Chenai couldn't stand the temptation any longer, and started to undress without hesitation, preparing to enjoy the rare hot spring bath.